NAME
Catalyst::Plugin::UploadProgress - Realtime file upload information
SYNOPSIS
use Catalyst;
MyApp->setup( qw/Static::Simple Cache::FastMmap UploadProgress/ );
# On the HTML page with the upload form, include the progress
# JavaScript and CSS. These are available via a single method
# if you are lazy.

[% c.upload_progress_javascript %]
...
# For better performance, copy these 3 files from the UploadProgress
# distribution to your static directory and include them normally.
...
# Create the upload form with an onsubmit action that creates
# the Ajax progress bar. Note the empty div following the form
# where the progress bar will be inserted.

# No special code is required within your application, just handle
# the upload as usual.
sub upload : Local {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
my $upload = $c->request->uploads->{file};
$upload->copy_to( '/some/path/' . $upload->filename );
}
DESCRIPTION
This plugin is a simple, transparent method for displaying a progress
bar during file uploads.
DEMO
Please see the example/Upload directory in the distribution for a
working example Catalyst application with upload progress. Since Upload
Progress requires 2 concurrent connections (one for the upload and one
for the Ajax, you will need to use either script/upload_poe.pl (which
requires Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::POE >= 0.02) or script/upload_server.pl
-f. The -f enables forking for each new request.
ENGINE SUPPORT
The included demo application has been tested and is known to work on
the following setups with Catalyst 5.7003:
C::E::HTTP (server.pl) with -f flag (OSX) C::E::HTTP::POE 0.03 (OSX)
C::E::Apache2::MP20 1.07 with Apache 2.0.58, mod_perl 2.0.2 (OSX)
C::E::FastCGI with Apache 2.0.55, mod_fastcgi 2.4.2 (Ubuntu)
INTERNAL METHODS
You don't need to know about these methods, but they are documented here
for developers.
upload_progress( $progress_id )
Returns the data structure associated with the given progress ID.
Currently the data is a hashref with the total size of the upload and
the amount of bytes received so far.
{
size => 110636659,
received => 134983
}
upload_progress_output
Returns a JSON response containing the upload progress data.
upload_progress_javascript
Inlines the necessary JavaScript and CSS code into your page. For better
performance, you should copy the files into your application as
displayed above in the Synopsis.
EXTENDED METHODS
prepare_body_chunk ( $chunk )
Takes each chunk of incoming upload data and updates the upload progress
record with new information.
dispatch
Watches for the special URI /progress?progress_id= and returns the
JSON output from "/upload_progress_output".
setup
AUTHOR
Andy Grundman,
THANKS
The authors of Apache2::UploadProgress, for the progress.js and
progress.css code:
Christian Hansen
Cees Hek
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.